A blog about my passion for Wildlife, the places we go and what we see.

Friday, 7 March 2014

Scotland Journey Pt 1 - from Lincs to Kinross via Kielder Water

This is not a very long post as this first day just includes our trip up from North Lincolnshire, through Northumberland and on to Kinross.
It takes us just under 2 hours to get up to Scotch Corner for a quick pit stop, then another 2 hours to our first real destination, Kielder Water.
I saw and noted quite a few birds on the way up(not me driving;)) that I will list at the end.

Kielder Water is a regular stop for us to get a couple of hours at the Red Squirrel hide.

Plenty of birds there too with Chaffinches by the bucket load as well as Coal Tits, Siskins, Great Tits & the occassional Nuthatch.

Siskin on the feeders.

A Crow coming down to find food amongst the feeders.

The 100+ Chaffinches are pretty tame and will come quite close to feed from you.

Both above photos taken by Majella Fox

More Chaffinch photos.

The main reason for the hide is for the hope of seeing one of our cutest mammals, the Red Squirrel and they didn't disappoint.We saw 3 that day:)

2 hours later and back on the road past Edinburgh and over the Forth Road Bridge into the pouring rain of Fife.
A quick trip to RSPB Vane Farm at Loch Leven revealed a group of 22 Whooper Swans as well as Pochards & Goldeneye.
Catkin covered by the Scotttish rain.